The parfait mareschal, or Compleat farrier. Which teacheth, I. To know the shapes and goodness, as well as faults and imperfections of horses. II. The signs and causes of their diseases, the means to prevent them, their cure, and the good or bad use of purging and bleeding. III. The way to order and preserve them, when upon travel, to feed, and to dress them. IV. The art of shoeing, according to a new design of shoes, which will recover bad feet, and preserve the good. Together with a treatise, how to raise and bring up a true and beautiful race of horses: as also instructions, whereby to fit all kinds of horses with proper bits, whereof the chief draughts are represented in copper-plates. / Written originally in French by the Sieur de Solleysel Escuyer, sometime one of the overseers of the French Kings Royal Academy of Riding, near to the Hostel de Conde in Paris. And translated from the last Paris impression, by Sir William Hope of Kirkliston Kt. Lieutenat Governour of the Castle of Edinburgh. By whom is also added as a supplement to the first part, a most compendious and excellent collection of horsemanship, taken from the best and most modern writers upon that subject, such as Mr. De la Brow, Pluvinel, and the Great Duke of Newcastle. Part I.

The Sympathetic Powder.

Take a convenient quantity of good common Vitriol, (the Roman is best, the German may be also us'd, but that of Cyprus is not at all fit for this purpose) put it in a flat-bottom'd Earthen Pan, and expose it in the open Air to the hottest Rays of the Sun, removing it always at Night, and in moist Weather, till the Vitriol be Cal∣cin'd and reduc'd to a white Calx. In the mean time you must stir it every Day with a Wooden-slice, for it must never be touch'd with Iron, which is apt to weaken it, and deprive it of its Virtue, especially when the Sun has open'd its Body, and begun the Calcination, the time of which is uncertain. As soon as you perceive, that it has acquir'd a perfectly white Colour, take it out of the Pan, and preserve it care∣fully in a dry place, for this is the true Powder of Sympathy. Take a Cloth stain'd with some Blood from the Wound, and strew this Powder upon it, then lay it in a temp'rate place, powd'ring it every Day; and if there be Matter in the Wound, re∣ceive some of it upon a Cloth, and strew it with the same Powder.

If the Wound require Suppuration, lay the Cloth in a moist place; if to be dry'd in a dry place; and if you are oblig'd, by reason of the depth of the Wound, to make use of Tents, put 'em in clean and dry, and strew the Powder on 'em when you take 'em out, continuing to observe the same Method, till the Wound be heal'd. I have seen the Solution of this Powder apply'd to Men with extraordinary Success for Wrenches and Sinew-strains; for many Persons have been cur'd very speedily and more effectually, than if they had us'd all other Remedies, by binding a Linnen-Cloth, five or six times doubl'd, and dipt in this Solution, about the Part, and re∣newing it twice a Day. 'Tis true, this is not the effect of Sympathy, but those who are cur'd by it are very well satisfy'd, tho' they are ignorant of the cause to which they owe their recovery; and 'tis certainly more effectual in these cases, than either the Imperial or Angelic-Water, or that of the Queen of Hungary, and even than all Balsams, Oils, and Ointments whatsoever. By the same Method you may cure

Horses of such dangerous Wrenches and Strains in the Houghs, that make 'em unfit for Service, till after the succesless tryal of a vast number of Remedies, you are at last oblig'd to give the Fire; but since some Men will not be perswaded of the incredible effects of this Remedy, and others cannot procure it when they have occasion to use it, I shall communicate the description of an Ointment for Wounds that will advance the Cure more in one Day, than other Ointments do in a considerable space of Time.